Events

Poster advertising the ESRC Festival of Social Science

The Future of Human Reproduction team exhibited at this year’s ESRC Festival of Social Science at Lancaster University on Thursday 26th October. We delivered a series of activities that explored how technological developments might change the way in which future children are created and born.

Illustration of human sperm and egg.

Scientific advances in in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) raise a number of ethical, regulatory and policy issues. These issues were the focus of an IVG Policy Briefing Workshop, jointly delivered by The Future of Human Reproduction Team and the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. 

By Dr Zoe Bolton

Illustration of a human fetus.

In November 2022, The Future of Human Reproduction programme held the first in a series of scoping workshops on disruptive reproductive technologies. ‘Envisaging Reproductive Futures: Extra Corporeal Gestation (ExCG)’, aimed to facilitate in depth discussion and interdisciplinary collaboration between academics with an interest in ExCG.

By Dr Laura O’Donovan

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